Use Case: Provide feedback to a user as they manipulate the map

[NickFitz]

This issue is for discussion of the use case “Provide feedback to a user as they manipulate the map”, its examples & list of required capabilities.

[prushforth]

Like what kind of feedback, for example?

[AmeliaBR]

Maybe a clearer wording for this (authoring API) use case would be "Update web page content in response to user-initiated changes of the map view" ?

Or maybe we can split this up into multiple cases, one for reacting to pan & zoom, and another for reacting to layer selection/visibility changes.

[Malvoz]

Such feedback could also mean aural feedback, or have the device (or otherwise a connected one) start vibrating as a person with such needs start closing in on her destination, for example.

[AmeliaBR]

Such feedback could also mean aural feedback, or have the device (or otherwise a connected one) start vibrating

Good point. We can keep the definition open enough to any kind of change or action that website scripts can trigger in response to events.

as a person with such needs start closing in on her destination, for example.

But this is starting to slide into a different use case: reacting to the user's physical geo-location, not just to their interaction with the map.

[prushforth]

The users physical location is important ,obviously, but not the only way to input a location. For example, if a map was made static, so that dragging a finger over it didn't immediately pan it, the UA could vibrate or speak or otherwise communicate the feature being touched, potentially with a view to generating next steps, directions or other info about it. A haptic map, if such a thing exists.